What does it mean to be delivered from the present evil age

What does it mean to be delivered from the present evil age? Jesus prayed for you in John 17:15, "Father don't take them out of the world, but keep them from evil." The present age is an evil age because sin has such a grip on your life and on the people of your society, and because Satan is allowed so much power. In fact, in 2 Corinthians 4:4 Scripture says, "The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ"

But for those who trust Christ, liberation does take place. Colossians 1:13 says, "God has delivered you from the dominion of darkness and transferred you to the kingdom of his beloved Son."

The reason you are no longer enslaved to the guilt, anger, selfishness, greed and pride of the present evil age is that "you have tasted the powers of the age to come " (Hebrews 6:5), or as Jesus said, "the kingdom of God has come upon you" (Luke 11:20). "Now that you are in Christ, you are a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come" (2 Corinthians 5:17). The way of Christ, with His Supernatural powers, has broken into this evil age to deliver you.

The experience of deliverance from the present evil age enables you to bear witness with your life that you belong to another King and another kingdom and another age. And it begins with a changed heart and a changed mind. It says in Romans 12:2, "Do not be conformed to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind." Deliverance from the present evil age means freedom not to think like this age.

Freedom! "For Christ has set you free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery" (Galatians 5:1). Jesus Christ died to deliver you from the curse of the law—glorious forgiveness!—and He died to deliver you from the conceptions of this age—and through The Holy Spirit given you freedom of your mind! Christ gave himself to deliver you from the present evil age: Loose yourself from the world, don't feel or think like this age thinks and feels but be free!

Remember that Jesus died to cover all your sins so that God could come upon you with His gracious power and free you from the evil of this age. Live every moment by faith in him, and you will not think or feel the way the world does. And remember that this Jesus rose from the dead, and appeared to Paul on the Damascus road, and commissioned him as an apostle, and today He speaks to you through his letter to the Galatians. He died to free you from a mindset that leads to destruction; and He rose and authorized the writing of this book to fill you with a mindset that leads to eternal life. Trust him. Study him. It will be grace to you and glory to God!